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On March 4, 2019, a jury acquitted O'Donnell of 21 counts of wire fraud. On March 7, U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren granted prosecutors' request to drop the five remaining charges—two charges of wire fraud and three charges of money laundering. In May 2018, O’Donnell was indicted by a federal grand jury on 23 counts of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering. O’Donnell was accused of taking $10,500 from his campaign funds and using it for his personal use. The indictment alleged that over a couple of months in 2015 and 2016, O’Donnell wrote checks from his campaign account to three of his friends who cashed them. Prosecutors alleged that O’Donnell’s friends did little or no work on his campaign and that some of the money from the cashed checks went into O’Donnell’s personal checking account.
